Friday, October 8, 2010

Gary Fitzpatrick
Gary is still playing regularly. His main band these days is The Sick and Indigent Song Club. They've released two albums on Millenium Boy Records and are currently planning an album of sea shantys which will be recorded in a maritime museum. He also plays solo, and with Barry McCormack and Christine Beepbeep. He collects banjo's, banjourines, banjo mandolins, banjo ukuleles etc.

Alan Murphy
Alan is occassionally drumming with Gary Fitzpatrick in his Dead Zoo project and also working with Eugene Ryder, Maura O' Boyle and Annabella Stover who he previously played with in Venus Envy.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Pat Clafferty
Is currently in his own words "jamming out some tunes with two nice chaps up in the wilds of Inishowen, Co. Donegal. No internet stuff. No home demos. No myspace. Just good old fashioned live melodic rock 'n roll with vintage amps, drums and bass." Keep an eye out for them playing in and around Derry.

Brian Gough
Is still playing guitar and making the odd piece of electronic music (mainly for his own amusement). He did a remix for Halfset a few years ago, and has done some work with David Turpin.
He also does the odd bit of graphic design.

Fin O' Leary
Is not playing music with anyone at the moment. In recent years he has played with A Lazarus Soul and Nina Hynes.

Jill Hahn
Is playing a lot of trad music nowadays, on the mandolin, tenor guitar and tenor banjo. She will hopfully be recording a CD's worth of trad tunes sometime next year.

Eric Stover
Eric was until very recently the last in a long line of drummers for Dunshaughlin indie rock behemoths Large Mound. Then he briefly provided a rock steady beat for completely devolved ace power pop slingers Retarded Cop, who eventually mutated into Hot Colossus.

Eric Butterfield
Eric's main project in recent years is Sons of the Golden West. He played guitar and drums on their self-titled CD. They're no longer performing live but continue as a recording project. He also plays guitar in another band called The Commissioners which performs in San Francisco/Oakland clubs.

I'm not sure if I got all the various members of the early line-ups included. Feel free to pass on any relevant info for inclusion.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Female Hercules continued on for many years becoming a truly great live band whipping up a storm where ever they played. In their live incarnation they were often joined on keyboards by John Hegarty, and occassionally the infamous Benny Sessions. They released a couple more EPs. You can get them on the snazzy new rekcollecter blog, but over the years they slowly ground to a halt, never really officially breaking up.Singer and guitarist Michael 'Conzo" Connerty re-joined spazzmo garage punks Moutpiece where he continues to whip up a storm on a regular basis.

After a number of years of inactivity Female Hercules have played twice in 2010 so who knows what the future holds?

After leaving blunt Joyrider released a bunch of singles and an album on Pardox records.Simon Haddock is currently playing with Trucker Diablo.Phil Woolsey was inRoque Junior but they don't seem to be active anymore.I've no more information and the web is not yielding much.If anyone has any info pass it on and I'll add it to the post.

And here we are back where it all started with Pet Lamb, after them having been through the big label grinder. This was the last release on the blunt label. I've added an extra track to this post, a remix of Six String Goal by Decal that didn't feature on the cd.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Derrick was the first bass player in Mexican Pets. €12 entry includes a copy of the Aeromodeller album 'First Flight' and the Crumb 7 inch 'Like Goodbye'. Tickets available from tickets.ie. All profits go to the charity Aware.

Friday, July 30, 2010

As you can see by the catalogue number this was a joint release by blunt and Independent.It was the first blunt release to come out on cd. It was also available on 7 inch vinyl.More information about Luggage here.

By this time Paul had left Ireland to seek his fortune on foreign shores effectively leaving Dan and Andy to run blunt. This release was the first of many collaborations with Dave at Independent records . The tracks on this record and the next one were licensed from Independent where they were originally released on a cd called "Nobody's Working Title".

Friday, July 23, 2010

This compilation was put together when a big music business seminar came to town. It features all the bands that blunt worked with and many more.
The only thing I remember about it was a few gigs on a boat moored outside The Funnel where I met the A&R man who signed Pet Lamb and Wormhole to Roadrunner Records. He had moved on to greener pastures by then. The cover was done by Niall McCormack.I like to believe U2 got the name for their song "Zip Up Your Boots" when Eno played them a copy of this one day in Marrakesh in an attempt to inspire them.